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...cycle. "What is so fun about this?" I think during a dark moment of the day, as I get lapped by another skier, taste blood in my mouth that is spraying up from my heaving, overtaxed lungs, and catch a ski tip on a tree, causing me to plow into the underbrush and knock my head on my gun barrel. "This is not fun... this is just dumb... stop... please." Finally, the casual clockings we keep in the time trial reveal that I only need to cut my time in half in order to be competitive. Even my own formidable...
...reconsider ratifying the Test Ban Treaty. Right now, Washington stands alone among its NATO allies on the issue of missile defense, which the Europeans see as an unworkable and unwise scheme that will provoke Russia to abandon existing arms control agreements. Some analysts suspect that if the administration does plow ahead on missile defense, ratifying the CTBT may become seen as a sop to Europe. Placating the Europeans, of course, will be General Powell's job. Secretary-designate Rumsfeld may not want to see it done at the expense of a new generation of U.S. nuclear weapons. And that would...
...Technological developments are a further hallmark of this past millennium. We have developed the three-field system, cultivating great fields of legumes to replenish the soil and increase our food supply. We have created the heavy iron plow, which can bite through the heavy earth of Northern Europe. We have even unleashed the mighty power of the horse, with a new stirrup for shock combat and a collar that enables horses to pull heavy weights without choking them to death...
...technologies may expand human potential, but they can be used for both good or ill. Now that we can plow deeper and faster than ever before, will we have the wisdom to know if we have plowed too far? We think that we control our watermills--but will our watermills one day begin controlling...
...MOLDBOARD PLOW, A REVOLVING CHAIR, A CIPHER FOR CODING MESSAGES AND A NATION...